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<div><h1 class="article-title">How do I increase a person's or site's Drop Box quota?</h1></div>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">In the Administration Workspace, go to the Sites tool.</h2>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Find a course or project site.</h2>
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    <p>Find the site where you would like to increase the Drop Box tool quota. </p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Select the Go to Site link to access the site.</h2>
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    <p>Select the <strong>Go to Site</strong> link represented by the icon to the left of the site ID in the search results. The site will display.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Go to the Drop Box tool.</h2>
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    <p>Select <strong>Drop Box</strong> from the Tool Menu in the site.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Enable the custom quota.</h2>
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    <p>You can enable a custom quota for a specific site participant (e.g., one student in a course site needs their quota increased) or for all users (e.g., an instructor wants every student in the site to have a quota greater than 1 GB per person).</p>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Enable a custom quota for one user only.</h3>
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    <h4 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Edit Details on the user's folder.</h4>
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<li>Select the <strong>Actions </strong>menu for the user's folder.</li>
<li>Select <strong>Edit Details</strong>.</li>
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    <h4 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Enter the new quota.</h4>
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<li>Select the <strong>Special quota</strong> checkbox.</li>
<li>In the box provided, enter the new quota in <strong>Kilobytes (binary)</strong>. For quick reference, here is a list of custom <em>Drop Box </em>quotas in Kilobytes:<ul>
<li>2 GB = 2097152 KB</li>
<li>4 GB = 4294967 KB</li>
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    <h4 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Select Update.</h4>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Enable a custom quota for all users in the site.</h3>
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    <h4 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Edit Details on the top level Drop Box folder.</h4>
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<li>Select the <strong>Actions </strong>menu for the main, or top level,<em> Drop Box </em>tool folder.  The folder's name should be <strong>[site title] Drop Box</strong>.</li>
<li>Select <strong>Edit Details</strong>.</li>
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    <h4 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Enter the new quota.</h4>
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<li>Select the <strong>Special quota</strong> checkbox.</li>
<li>In the box provided, enter the new quota in <strong>Kilobytes (binary)</strong>. For quick reference, here is a list of custom <em>Drop Box </em>quotas in Kilobytes:<ul>
<li>2 GB = 2097152 KB</li>
<li>4 GB = 4294967 KB</li>
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    <h4 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Select Update.</h4>
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